Flour-mixing sieve.



D. W. BEGKNER.

FLOUR MIXING SIEVE.

APPLIOATION FILED MAY 18, 1912.

Patented Aug. 5, 1913.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DANIEL W. BECKNER, 0F LEBANON, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR 0F ONE-HALF TO OSCARBROWNING, OF LEBANON, MISSOURI.

FLOUR-MIXING SIEVE.

Application filed May is, 1912.

Specification of Letters Patent.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, DANIEL W. BEOKNER, acitizen of the United States, residing at Lebanon, in the county ofLaclede and State of Missouri, have invented a new and usefulFlour-Mixing Sieve, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in flour sifters, which, however,is adapted for sifting other analogous materials.

The invent-ion has for its object to provide for effectively sifting theflour and to effect the thorough intermixing of the sifted flour and theusual ingredients employed to render it suitable for baking purposes, aswell understood.

A further object is to carry out these ends in a simple, inexpensive andexpeditious manner.

The invention consists of certain instrumentalities and featuressubstantially as hereinafter fully disclosed and defined by the appendedclaim.

The accompanying drawing illustrates the preferred embodiment of myinvention.

It is understood that various changes and modifications may be made asto the detailed construction and arrangement of the parts withoutdeparting from the spirit thereof.

In the drawings,Figure 1 is a perspective view of the sifter. Fig. 2 isa central vertical sect-ion thereof.

In carrying out my invention, I provide a suitable receptacle 1 of anydesired outline or shape and convenient size or capacity, the same alsobeing provided with a handle 2. Said receptacle is sub-divided intosundry horizontal compartments or chambers, preferably three, designatedas 3, at and 5, respectively, the bottoms of said compartments orchambers being foraminous or finely perforated for obvious reasons. Thefirst of these chambers or compartments initially receives the flour, orother material, and the ingredients which may be employed in connectiontherewith, as usual, in preparing the same for conversion, or makinginto bread. These chambers or compartments are superposed with respectto each other, the two lower ones being adapted to receive the siftingflour successively as it is agitated in the initial or topmost chamberor compartment. In these chambers or compartments are arranged agitatorswhich are preferably edgewise-disposed frames designated as 6, 7 and 8,respectively *one being received by each chamber or compartment, and tothese agitators or plates are centrally secured operating stems or rods9, 10 and 11, respectively, extending through apertures in one side ofthe receptacle 1, and additionally, or preferably through areinforcingpart or brace l1 suitably secured to the receptacle. These stems or rodsare connected fixedly together for the common or simultaneous actuationor movement of said agitators, by the hand, the uniting member betweenthe outer ends of said stems or rods which is preferably a frame-likemember 12 being suitably adapted having a finger or handhold 12 appliedthereto for convenientgrasping by the hand.

It will be noted that, with the flour or material placed in the initialor topmost chamber or compartment, together with the ingredients, asabove indicated, and by grasping the hand-hold, the rods or stems of theagitators 6, 7 and 8, the contents of said initial chamber will besifted through its foralninous bottom, into the next chamber orcompartment below, and that the sifted contents of this secondcompartment will be agitated or sifted by its agitator through theforaminous bottom of said chamber into the next or third compartment,the contents of this third compartment being delivered or sifted throughthe foraminous bot-tom thereof, thus providing, as is apparent, for theeffective sifting of the flour and the thorough inter-mixing of theflour and the ingredients as desired. 4

This device, it will be noted, is exceedingly simple, economic inconstruction, and effective in operation.

that is claimed is A sieve, having an open upper end casing divided intoa plurality of superposed chainbers by screen partitions, a projectionsemicircular in cross section carried upon one side of the casing, aplurality of rods, one to each chamber slidably mounted through theprojection and the wall of the casing adjacent the respective chambers,a screen scraping and material agitating member carried upon the innerend of each rod Within the oaslng, the lnterlneclmte lower members eachbelng 1n scraplng Contact with 1ts IQSPQCtlVG upper and lower screenPELltltlOnS, the ex In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, Ihave hereto afiixed my slgnatrue 111 the presence of tWo wltnesses.

DANIEL W. BEGKNER.

trelne upper or lower rods being longer than Vitnesses: the Intermediateone, and 21 handle con- DON O. VERNON, nected to the shdable rods. A. W.CURRY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

